Building Community Online Series-Session 2:  Making Face-Time Count: Strategies to Promote Engagement in Live Online Meetings (and Common Pitfalls to Avoid) - Microlearning Burst

Where: Webinar/Virtual

When: Thursday, February 11, 2021
10:15am - 11:00am

Note: Zoom login instructions will be sent the day prior. If you have not received login instructions by 4:00pm the day before the webinar, please check your spam folder, if you still have not received the login details please email nercomp@nercomp.org.

Workshop Organizers:  Christine Boyland of Bryn Mawr College and Heather Richards of Nichols College

Registration Fee:
NERCOMP Member: Free
Non-Member: $25
 

Event Overview
Social presence is the ability for students to engage with their peers while making significant contributions to a course’s community of learning. In online and distance learning environments, web-conferencing platforms are often presented as panaceas for building community and establishing human connection. Features such as breakout rooms, chats, screen-sharing, whiteboards, and polling are believed to increase low participation and student engagement associated with online virtual meetings. However, as stand-alone tech solutions, these platforms and features do little to promote communication, collaboration, and active learning. 

Moving beyond platform-specific features, this 45-minute workshop will focus on pedagogical strategies that teachers can implement to increase students’ cognitive engagement during live sessions and promote a sense of class community.
 

Learning Objectives
Participants in this session will:
 - Understand the value of virtual meeting guidelines that uphold values of respect, diversity, and inclusion
 - Devise active learning strategies that engage learners before, during, and after online meetings
 - Anticipate common pitfalls when using web-conferencing features for student interaction and collaboration

This Series has 3 Sessions (please sign up for each individually).  You are not required to attend all 3.
Upcoming Sessions:
 - February 18, 2021:  Instructor-Generated Videos for Increasing Social Presence in the Online and HyFlex Learning Environments: Teaching and Instructional Design in the COVID Pandemic and Beyond

Registration Cancellation Policy:
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